Fandom Dynamics Quotes

I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.

I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.

I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!

If fans consider me a heartthrob, I think it has more to do with the kind of characters that I have played.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

As an artiste, I believe that I am not my own property. I am the property of my fans.

The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.